77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
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77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/u ... -thursday/
96% voted to strike. What a terrible contract proposal this must be.
96% voted to strike. What a terrible contract proposal this must be.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
I'm not sure they are equipped to handle the volume increase but if there is ever a time they need to rise to the moment this is it. What is interesting about this is it sounds like the impacted stores going on strike are going to help a mixture of Denver Division Safeways and Intermountain Division Safeways (Western Colorado). Wal Mart and Target will get the main benefit, and other non-union competitors.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
Costco usually sees a noticeable bump in business when unions strike. Agree with Walmart, doubt Target sees much of anything unless they run ads screaming they really do sell groceries.storewanderer wrote: ↑February 4th, 2025, 12:27 amI'm not sure they are equipped to handle the volume increase but if there is ever a time they need to rise to the moment this is it. What is interesting about this is it sounds like the impacted stores going on strike are going to help a mixture of Denver Division Safeways and Intermountain Division Safeways (Western Colorado). Wal Mart and Target will get the main benefit, and other non-union competitors.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
Denver is a heavy market for SuperTarget buildings with full size produce, deli and bakery counters. This has compounded problems for Safeway. I think there may not be any other metro area with a higher percentage of Super buildings at Target. Maybe a cluster of them in Florida somewhere.babs wrote: ↑February 4th, 2025, 6:09 amCostco usually sees a noticeable bump in business when unions strike. Agree with Walmart, doubt Target sees much of anything unless they run ads screaming they really do sell groceries.storewanderer wrote: ↑February 4th, 2025, 12:27 amI'm not sure they are equipped to handle the volume increase but if there is ever a time they need to rise to the moment this is it. What is interesting about this is it sounds like the impacted stores going on strike are going to help a mixture of Denver Division Safeways and Intermountain Division Safeways (Western Colorado). Wal Mart and Target will get the main benefit, and other non-union competitors.
What will happen is Target will fail to execute. They will leave everything to the computer and not adjust for the potential lift in demand so the shelves will be wiped quickly even if they only get a small bump in traffic. Then it will take forever to get back in stock and the consistent customers they did have will wind up going elsewhere too.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
Metro Kansas City is 100% SuperTarget. KC was pretty much the last big metro entered by Target (in the early 90s).
Denver, though, is a very early ('60s) market for Target (and included grocery at that time).
Venture had them locked them out of Kansas City with the only upscale discounter in the market). Weird, though, as St. Louis was also an early Target market (roughly 1969/70)
Denver, though, is a very early ('60s) market for Target (and included grocery at that time).
Venture had them locked them out of Kansas City with the only upscale discounter in the market). Weird, though, as St. Louis was also an early Target market (roughly 1969/70)
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... e-colorado
I thought this was settled in federal law, but perhaps it was a state case where I live.He also criticized workers not being allowed to wear union pins, when they are allowed to wear pins with their favorite team or bands on them.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
Surprised that is not allowed. This is not something they should be arguing over. I am sure the companies love the union members trying to argue for the ability to wear union pins. It distracts from the wage/benefit topics that are the real topics needing to be discussed in the negotiations.SamSpade wrote: ↑February 5th, 2025, 4:12 pm https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... e-coloradoI thought this was settled in federal law, but perhaps it was a state case where I live.He also criticized workers not being allowed to wear union pins, when they are allowed to wear pins with their favorite team or bands on them.
This type of crap reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they took the beer and lost the dental plan.
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
This seems to be a list of impacted locations around Denver.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/k ... rs-strike/
Let's see how long this lasts. Also are the truck drivers honoring the picket line? Any vendors (some DSDs are unionized)?
Super Bowl is Sunday... important for sales but a lot of vendor items...
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/k ... rs-strike/
Let's see how long this lasts. Also are the truck drivers honoring the picket line? Any vendors (some DSDs are unionized)?
Super Bowl is Sunday... important for sales but a lot of vendor items...
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Re: 77 King Soopers to strike for 2 weeks starting Thursday
With all the negative PR Kroger got with the merger fiasco, you would have to think they would have wanted to avoid a situation like this.